I always greet people by saying good
afternoon good morning good evening and
so forth and if there’s enough time I
also try to get the names of some people
through which I’m able to know how much
people are desperate in being good good
morning
good afternoon nobody says bad morning
put up bad afternoon and so forth and
everybody has a good name all this shows
that we want had real peace so therefore
I always the first thing that I ask
people is do you want happiness then I’m
asking this question to you although I
am unable to see you but I would like to
hear your voice you said yes okay I have
not forced you you said yes my next
question is you said you want happiness
how long you want that happiness in
peace for how many days you want it very
greedy so this is interesting thing you
know we want happiness and also
long-lasting innocent peace and this
wish to have long lasting peace and
happiness is not something that you
learnt from your religion it probably is
not something that your parents taught
you you are born with that wish with
that arch in Buddhism we talk about the
life’s different stages and experiences
and we explained that by saying birth is
suffering aging is suffering illness is
suffering and finally death is suffering
but ordinary people like us we say happy
birthday the Buddha said birth is
suffering we need to find out who is
right
what is the first thing that the child
does after the birth laughing or crying
crying interesting very interesting
because if it’s really happy birthday
then the first thing that the child
should do after the birth is hahahahaha
you know but what we find is what we
find is crying be it an american tibetan
child chinese child
indian child doesn’t matter the first
thing that the child is does is crying
and what do you think the child is
asking by crying I don’t think the child
is asking for a lengthy discourse on
Buddhism or on Christianity or on any
religion the child is asking for
unconditional love unconditional care
from somebody this are I think extremely
extremely important life lessons that we
should all be aware the child is asking
for unconditional love because the child
is in need of their long lasting peace
and happiness and the child is so able
to kind of figure out based on the type
of physical state that the long source
for long lasting peace and happiness is
unconditional love unconditional love
unconditional love why I need to repeat
these lines I need to repeat this
because when we grow up that
unconditional love disappears into thin
air and what we come up with is business
love you love me I love you so long as
you love me I call their business so
therefore I choose this topic finding
happiness in an uncertain world now when
we say finding happiness in in an
uncertain world people do get some sense
of finding happiness in the uncertain
world so what they do they marry
somebody then after a short while they
say Oh things are changing I might
change I should change my wife this wife
didn’t work this husband didn’t work
this furniture didn’t work this car
didn’t work
but I change it the next car the next
wife the next husband is sure going to
give me their long-lasting peace and
happiness so you end up hold your life
changing your furniture changing your
wife changing your husband changing your
relationship and then you die this is
exactly what is happening in today’s
world and we are not able to get there
long lasting peace and happiness what
the Buddha taught was you need to
realize things are changing but in order
to get there long lasting peace and
happiness in that uncertain changing
world is not change in the external
situation circumstances by changing
yourself it is not changing the external
but changing within the internal through
which you can get long-lasting peace and
happiness and why the way this is so
because if you try to change what is
outside of you beat the even beat the
situation be the people you have no
control over these people this even the
situations and if you try to control
them it’s wrong you need to respect
other people’s life the life of that
other person is not for you to entertain
you the beautiful tree that is growing
outside there is not to entertain you it
has its own life respect to their life
be it a human being be it a tree
whatever respect their life and try to
learn in learn to live in harmony with
the nature so they were to get that
long-lasting peace and happiness there
are many many different steps one step
is living in harmony with everybody
living in harmony with nature living in
how many with your thinking and your
body and so forth so let me give you few
illustrations one is when this TEDx talk
was introduced this young lady said
there will be people who will be talking
about like mind-blowing things you know
things like that but honestly speaking I
don’t have those kinds of mind-blowing
things
because you know there’s a Tibetan
saying which says all actions all
activities are imitations and whoever
does the best imitation is called a
scholar so I am here to imitate the
Buddha imitate his holliness Lama but I
am imitating not in a stupid way but I
felt that these are really good ways of
thinking good ways of life so I’m
imitating them so therefore it is
important to realize the fact that if
you want that genuine long lasting peace
in happiness learn to live in harmony
with nature as I said earlier and I give
you an example in order to live in
harmony with the nature you need to
understand nature and that’s why the
first teaching that the Buddha gave
after his enlightenment was teaching
people live in harmony with nature so
the first teaching that he gave us on
impermanence uncertainty change which is
so relevant in today’s world everything
is changing everything is in a flux and
out of that first topic of impermanence
the first thing that he taught was dead
how many of us are here who meditate and
contemplate about death I doubt I doubt
everybody is preparing to live even if
you ask an old man 95 years old are you
going to die soon yes yes I am very old
I am going to die soon are you going to
die to do today maybe not that is the
situation that is the situation now why
this teaching is important this teaching
is important if you are somebody who is
this clear understanding that today may
be must my last life last day there will
be quantum live in changing your life if
you don’t have that understanding then
there will be hatred corruption
exploitation resentment leggo concern to
other people’s well-being and so forth
if you understand
your life will be completely transformed
I tell you a short story of encounter of
a mother with her child who was very
sick and the mother brought their child
to the Buddha and immediately Buddha
said oh this child is going to live only
one year and that the child started
crying and there was no way to really
console him so after several months the
child came back to the Buddha and the
Buddha said what have you been doing
during the last few months did you do
anything that’s harmful to other people
did you kill anybody
did you say any nasty thing to other
people that the child said I’m going to
die so how can I do those things that is
the point that is the point that’s why
one of the Buddhist teacher like shunted
away says you don’t have to kill people
they will die from that you can get a
sense of how stupid we are
how stupid we are in that same way and
we can say you don’t have to bring
suffering on others they’re already
suffering now look at what we are doing
in the world coming up with the
extremely extremely accurate
sophisticated machines to kill and a
limit people and people who are
supervising that are called the great
leaders who walk on the red carpet it
may be because of smallness of my mind
but I am completely shocked completely
shocked how come then we have only few
lives few years to live together I’ll
tell you another story which is theirs
that’s my like kind of inspiration that
I’m trying to give you it’s not coming
from me it’s coming from great teachers
there’s a in in one of the Buddhist mind
training texts there is a teaching which
talks about three criminals who are
caught and to be killed tonight let us
say 10:00 p.m. so they have only few
hours to live together how this should
behave towards each other
exploitation corruption
trying to bully each other in each other
if they do something like this we will
be shocked and some of us who have
tender heart might cry my brave how come
these people they are going to be killed
at 10 p.m. and still they are so mean to
each other
how come is that clear
so what they should be doing within
these few remaining a verses they should
be praying together consoling each other
and then this the writer of this text he
says we are no different from these
three criminals they have few hours to
live and we have how much even if I give
you a big discount even if I give you a
big discount we will live another 70
years not more than that sorry sorry
very sorry
not more than 70 years so within this 70
years how should we be doing and I’ve
already told you but we don’t don’t
think about these things we don’t think
about these things there’s why we never
get happiness
so there’s why in the Buddhist teachings
it is repeatedly said suffering is
introduction to happiness suffering
means challenges when you encounter
challenges you learn you get new
experiences but what I’m really trying
to drive it is that unless you change
your attitude you are never going to get
happiness not only that you are going to
destroy this earth so there’s why I’m so
happy with these young people with full
of energy made this initiative of
exchanging ideas exchanging culture
transforming the mind normally what we
do is as I already said we try to get
that happiness from outside from house
from marriage from cars from these from
death and we are so much after this
material pursuits today everybody’s
running walking is to slow train is to
slow cars to slow flying still slow I’m
shocked to learn this all this video
supposed to be facilities all these
technological products are supposed to
be facilities if this efficient it is
then why are why do we have to run so
much today they should the facilities
should give us more time to engage in
more human creative activities more time
to speak the families are we getting
that we are not getting there we are
running and running everybody everybody
says I am busy I am busy if to be busy
is very important I want to remind you
to be busy it’s not important what is
important is what are you busy about
what are you busy about and it is
because of this rush toward the sensual
pleasures material object there we are
now destroying the whole planet because
the so-called concept of development in
model war is material development
material has to come from external
physical objects external physical
objects have limitation how can you make
unlimited progress from limited
resources so we are already destroying
the environment so it’s so important to
have this kind of exchange program and
then make initiative and discuss how to
solve this problem and we are so good in
coming up with a you know destructive
weapon which is so accurate that you can
hit the enemy in the right or left eye
where we are unable to remove the
garbages in the street we are unable to
you know do away with the pollutions
because there is no concern there’s no
genuine care if you have this genuine
care a genuine concern why can’t we’ll
deal with these floods which comes in a
place every year why do we have this
choked drainages which is happening
every year
why can’t you solve these problems why
can’t you reduce these pollutions
because we have no concern and care for
other people we are only fond of doing
the show business so therefore I’m these
days I’m actually not very fond of
speaking and especially to people like
you because you’re to speak to you is
like preaching the convert you’re all
good people those people who are
engaging in more destructive experience
may not be here so the question is how
to reach them and then in Buddhism we
talk about ignorance is the root cause
of suffering but this nasai aid another
sentence by saying yes ignorance is root
cause of suffering but inaction is also
cause of suffering so it is important to
not only talk speaking is very good so
next time you come up with an idea of
doing something concrete so the people
are able to see that you are not just
talking but also doing thank you very
much [Applause]
afternoon good morning good evening and
so forth and if there’s enough time I
also try to get the names of some people
through which I’m able to know how much
people are desperate in being good good
morning
good afternoon nobody says bad morning
put up bad afternoon and so forth and
everybody has a good name all this shows
that we want had real peace so therefore
I always the first thing that I ask
people is do you want happiness then I’m
asking this question to you although I
am unable to see you but I would like to
hear your voice you said yes okay I have
not forced you you said yes my next
question is you said you want happiness
how long you want that happiness in
peace for how many days you want it very
greedy so this is interesting thing you
know we want happiness and also
long-lasting innocent peace and this
wish to have long lasting peace and
happiness is not something that you
learnt from your religion it probably is
not something that your parents taught
you you are born with that wish with
that arch in Buddhism we talk about the
life’s different stages and experiences
and we explained that by saying birth is
suffering aging is suffering illness is
suffering and finally death is suffering
but ordinary people like us we say happy
birthday the Buddha said birth is
suffering we need to find out who is
right
what is the first thing that the child
does after the birth laughing or crying
crying interesting very interesting
because if it’s really happy birthday
then the first thing that the child
should do after the birth is hahahahaha
you know but what we find is what we
find is crying be it an american tibetan
child chinese child
indian child doesn’t matter the first
thing that the child is does is crying
and what do you think the child is
asking by crying I don’t think the child
is asking for a lengthy discourse on
Buddhism or on Christianity or on any
religion the child is asking for
unconditional love unconditional care
from somebody this are I think extremely
extremely important life lessons that we
should all be aware the child is asking
for unconditional love because the child
is in need of their long lasting peace
and happiness and the child is so able
to kind of figure out based on the type
of physical state that the long source
for long lasting peace and happiness is
unconditional love unconditional love
unconditional love why I need to repeat
these lines I need to repeat this
because when we grow up that
unconditional love disappears into thin
air and what we come up with is business
love you love me I love you so long as
you love me I call their business so
therefore I choose this topic finding
happiness in an uncertain world now when
we say finding happiness in in an
uncertain world people do get some sense
of finding happiness in the uncertain
world so what they do they marry
somebody then after a short while they
say Oh things are changing I might
change I should change my wife this wife
didn’t work this husband didn’t work
this furniture didn’t work this car
didn’t work
but I change it the next car the next
wife the next husband is sure going to
give me their long-lasting peace and
happiness so you end up hold your life
changing your furniture changing your
wife changing your husband changing your
relationship and then you die this is
exactly what is happening in today’s
world and we are not able to get there
long lasting peace and happiness what
the Buddha taught was you need to
realize things are changing but in order
to get there long lasting peace and
happiness in that uncertain changing
world is not change in the external
situation circumstances by changing
yourself it is not changing the external
but changing within the internal through
which you can get long-lasting peace and
happiness and why the way this is so
because if you try to change what is
outside of you beat the even beat the
situation be the people you have no
control over these people this even the
situations and if you try to control
them it’s wrong you need to respect
other people’s life the life of that
other person is not for you to entertain
you the beautiful tree that is growing
outside there is not to entertain you it
has its own life respect to their life
be it a human being be it a tree
whatever respect their life and try to
learn in learn to live in harmony with
the nature so they were to get that
long-lasting peace and happiness there
are many many different steps one step
is living in harmony with everybody
living in harmony with nature living in
how many with your thinking and your
body and so forth so let me give you few
illustrations one is when this TEDx talk
was introduced this young lady said
there will be people who will be talking
about like mind-blowing things you know
things like that but honestly speaking I
don’t have those kinds of mind-blowing
things
because you know there’s a Tibetan
saying which says all actions all
activities are imitations and whoever
does the best imitation is called a
scholar so I am here to imitate the
Buddha imitate his holliness Lama but I
am imitating not in a stupid way but I
felt that these are really good ways of
thinking good ways of life so I’m
imitating them so therefore it is
important to realize the fact that if
you want that genuine long lasting peace
in happiness learn to live in harmony
with nature as I said earlier and I give
you an example in order to live in
harmony with the nature you need to
understand nature and that’s why the
first teaching that the Buddha gave
after his enlightenment was teaching
people live in harmony with nature so
the first teaching that he gave us on
impermanence uncertainty change which is
so relevant in today’s world everything
is changing everything is in a flux and
out of that first topic of impermanence
the first thing that he taught was dead
how many of us are here who meditate and
contemplate about death I doubt I doubt
everybody is preparing to live even if
you ask an old man 95 years old are you
going to die soon yes yes I am very old
I am going to die soon are you going to
die to do today maybe not that is the
situation that is the situation now why
this teaching is important this teaching
is important if you are somebody who is
this clear understanding that today may
be must my last life last day there will
be quantum live in changing your life if
you don’t have that understanding then
there will be hatred corruption
exploitation resentment leggo concern to
other people’s well-being and so forth
if you understand
your life will be completely transformed
I tell you a short story of encounter of
a mother with her child who was very
sick and the mother brought their child
to the Buddha and immediately Buddha
said oh this child is going to live only
one year and that the child started
crying and there was no way to really
console him so after several months the
child came back to the Buddha and the
Buddha said what have you been doing
during the last few months did you do
anything that’s harmful to other people
did you kill anybody
did you say any nasty thing to other
people that the child said I’m going to
die so how can I do those things that is
the point that is the point that’s why
one of the Buddhist teacher like shunted
away says you don’t have to kill people
they will die from that you can get a
sense of how stupid we are
how stupid we are in that same way and
we can say you don’t have to bring
suffering on others they’re already
suffering now look at what we are doing
in the world coming up with the
extremely extremely accurate
sophisticated machines to kill and a
limit people and people who are
supervising that are called the great
leaders who walk on the red carpet it
may be because of smallness of my mind
but I am completely shocked completely
shocked how come then we have only few
lives few years to live together I’ll
tell you another story which is theirs
that’s my like kind of inspiration that
I’m trying to give you it’s not coming
from me it’s coming from great teachers
there’s a in in one of the Buddhist mind
training texts there is a teaching which
talks about three criminals who are
caught and to be killed tonight let us
say 10:00 p.m. so they have only few
hours to live together how this should
behave towards each other
exploitation corruption
trying to bully each other in each other
if they do something like this we will
be shocked and some of us who have
tender heart might cry my brave how come
these people they are going to be killed
at 10 p.m. and still they are so mean to
each other
how come is that clear
so what they should be doing within
these few remaining a verses they should
be praying together consoling each other
and then this the writer of this text he
says we are no different from these
three criminals they have few hours to
live and we have how much even if I give
you a big discount even if I give you a
big discount we will live another 70
years not more than that sorry sorry
very sorry
not more than 70 years so within this 70
years how should we be doing and I’ve
already told you but we don’t don’t
think about these things we don’t think
about these things there’s why we never
get happiness
so there’s why in the Buddhist teachings
it is repeatedly said suffering is
introduction to happiness suffering
means challenges when you encounter
challenges you learn you get new
experiences but what I’m really trying
to drive it is that unless you change
your attitude you are never going to get
happiness not only that you are going to
destroy this earth so there’s why I’m so
happy with these young people with full
of energy made this initiative of
exchanging ideas exchanging culture
transforming the mind normally what we
do is as I already said we try to get
that happiness from outside from house
from marriage from cars from these from
death and we are so much after this
material pursuits today everybody’s
running walking is to slow train is to
slow cars to slow flying still slow I’m
shocked to learn this all this video
supposed to be facilities all these
technological products are supposed to
be facilities if this efficient it is
then why are why do we have to run so
much today they should the facilities
should give us more time to engage in
more human creative activities more time
to speak the families are we getting
that we are not getting there we are
running and running everybody everybody
says I am busy I am busy if to be busy
is very important I want to remind you
to be busy it’s not important what is
important is what are you busy about
what are you busy about and it is
because of this rush toward the sensual
pleasures material object there we are
now destroying the whole planet because
the so-called concept of development in
model war is material development
material has to come from external
physical objects external physical
objects have limitation how can you make
unlimited progress from limited
resources so we are already destroying
the environment so it’s so important to
have this kind of exchange program and
then make initiative and discuss how to
solve this problem and we are so good in
coming up with a you know destructive
weapon which is so accurate that you can
hit the enemy in the right or left eye
where we are unable to remove the
garbages in the street we are unable to
you know do away with the pollutions
because there is no concern there’s no
genuine care if you have this genuine
care a genuine concern why can’t we’ll
deal with these floods which comes in a
place every year why do we have this
choked drainages which is happening
every year
why can’t you solve these problems why
can’t you reduce these pollutions
because we have no concern and care for
other people we are only fond of doing
the show business so therefore I’m these
days I’m actually not very fond of
speaking and especially to people like
you because you’re to speak to you is
like preaching the convert you’re all
good people those people who are
engaging in more destructive experience
may not be here so the question is how
to reach them and then in Buddhism we
talk about ignorance is the root cause
of suffering but this nasai aid another
sentence by saying yes ignorance is root
cause of suffering but inaction is also
cause of suffering so it is important to
not only talk speaking is very good so
next time you come up with an idea of
doing something concrete so the people
are able to see that you are not just
talking but also doing thank you very
much [Applause]
Please follow and like us: